Words by Dr Darragh Garrahy With the bulk of the Amateur season now behind us, notably including the Lytham Trophy, the St Andrews Links, The Amateur Championship, the European Amateur Championship, and last week's South of Ireland at Lahinch itself, the jostling for position on the Great Britain & Irish Walker Cup team is reaching a crescendo. A large majority of the team will no doubt pick themselves based on form, experience and a sprinkling of data that will help Dean Robertson and his selectors put their best foot forward at [...]

WORDS BY HUGO CORNELL Glastonbury Festival has long been considered the toughest ticket ballot going, but that is no longer the case. The ballot for this year’s Cookie Jar Spring Meeting has smashed that long standing preconception to pieces. Purchasing Oasis tickets for their reunion was much less of a scrum than the hotly contested seat at the table as one of the lucky 32 golfers who turned up at Royal Birkdale and Formby in mid-April. Day 1 saw the Spring Meeting participants gather at Royal Birkdale for food, then golf. Two sleeves of C.J. logo'd Titleist ProV1x golf balls [...]